Metric Display Standards. Best practices for presenting numbers (medium.com) 76 points by kiyanwang 5y ago ↗ HN
[–] synack 5y ago ↗ I feel like there's a lot of Chartjunk [1] here. Some of it is necessary for interactivity, but there should be a middle ground.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartjunk [–] azalemeth 5y ago ↗ Quite. To be honest, I hoped the original URL would be more like this one -- https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html -- which is much more of a "metric system standards" page... [–] tgb 5y ago ↗ Molarity and molal are obsolete terms? [–] adrian_b 5y ago ↗ Only the words, due to various past confusions, not the concepts. [–] eclarkso 5y ago ↗ What, specifically, do you think is chartjunk? There are things that might be optional in some cases, but the article specifically names them as such and has a whole section on ways to combine different elements in different ways? [–] drewcon 5y ago ↗ Aside from the branding section, which author handles realistically...I don’t see anything I would consider chart junk.
[–] azalemeth 5y ago ↗ Quite. To be honest, I hoped the original URL would be more like this one -- https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html -- which is much more of a "metric system standards" page... [–] tgb 5y ago ↗ Molarity and molal are obsolete terms? [–] adrian_b 5y ago ↗ Only the words, due to various past confusions, not the concepts.
[–] tgb 5y ago ↗ Molarity and molal are obsolete terms? [–] adrian_b 5y ago ↗ Only the words, due to various past confusions, not the concepts.
[–] eclarkso 5y ago ↗ What, specifically, do you think is chartjunk? There are things that might be optional in some cases, but the article specifically names them as such and has a whole section on ways to combine different elements in different ways?
[–] drewcon 5y ago ↗ Aside from the branding section, which author handles realistically...I don’t see anything I would consider chart junk.
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